Useless (Dumbest) Gadgets
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Archive for December 28, 2006
Someone donated $286,800 to Wikipedia
Within the past few minutes the confirmed donations total went from $402,000 to $689,000. One contribution was by An anonymous friend on 2006-12-27 at 22:17:00 for the amount of $286,800.
Full Details of StarHub’s 100Mbps Residential Broadband
Here are the full details of Singapore StarHub’s 100Mbps Residential Broadband. Check it out.
Gizmondo: Inside The Eye Of The Tiger
Simon Carless goes into exhaustive detail about the history of the Gizmondo handheld game console and its Swedish mafia connections. Others have made cute little pictures to describe this story, but Mr. Carless presents a massive investigative piece on the underpinnings of the strangest story in gaming.
5 Predictions for Apple in 2007
Apple Gazette writes, “What are we going to be salivating over and speculating about after Macworld? What changes are in store for Apple in 2007? No one knows for sure…but it sure is fun to take a guess…”
MySpace Stickers Take Off
New MySpace Stickers is favored by MySpace users for ease and digg style rating system.
Wii Bowling lies about spin!
It’s almost impossible to spin the ball away from the pins if all your pins are to one side. Was this deliberately put in to make piking up spares easier, or is the Wii’s controller not as sensitive as it seems?
Mac Pro and two 30″ Apple Displays Competition Results in Tears and Irony
Hosted by Crestock.com, Ironically the winner used a stock photograph from a competing website: iStockPhoto- whom many entrants feel was poorly done compared to the other entries. First a competition- now controversy as to who won; Could this be the ultimate advertising for Crestock? Or did the winner just have all the judges fooled?
Comparison of MS-Word 2000 vs Commodore 64’s “The Write Stuff”
Before the days of WYSIWYG word processing, 8-bit machines had their own style of word processing work horses. Interesting article comparing old and new(er) technologies in the word processing world. Interesting to see what features did exist back then against what we currently have.
SearchMash - Google’s Next Generation Search Engine
This is a search engine which uses the same base algorithm as Google, loads a 100 times quicker, has integrated Images, Video and Wikipedia lookup and no Ads. Time to change your default search engine folks. (Well, at least until Google doesn’t pull the BETA tag and starts throwing some ads in.)
The new mantra of the new Web. From Digg to Zillow.
In the past few years we have seen the rise of a new breed of popular websites. And broadly I would classify them into two categories. The sleek, cool ajax based web 2.0 websites and the community driven websites. Whats the new mantra ? READ ON.
CafeMom Launches An Impressive “MySpace for Moms”
CafeMom is an impressive platform that allows you to create a profile, add a photo or choose from pre-made avatars, customize your profile’s color scheme and background, send messages and build a network of friends.